After reading all three articles on my hot topic I have realized that the common perception of Paralegals getting licensed is that they think paralegals are just legal assistance's. Therefore they don’t even truly realize that Paralegals even know a lot about the law. Many don’t understand that paralegals are important to the criminal justice system also. Attorneys couldn’t do everything by themselves. If more people were educated on the difference between licensed Paralegals and non licensed Paralegals they would see that being licensed is a step in the right direction. I think it is a good opportunity for Paralegals to be able to get more responsibilities. The biggest issue everyone seems to have about it is that it would cost the public a lot more to hire a paralegal and it would raise the cost of the paralegal to the attorney that wanted to hire them also. 

                                                                     

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